Final: Atlanta Hawks 111 - Toronto Raptors 89

[Doc]

Atlanta Hawks @ Toronto Raptors

15-6, 2nd Southeast, (Road: 6-4) --- 10-14, 2nd Atlantic, (Home: 6-4)

WHEN: Fri., Dec. 11, 2008 at 7:00pm ET
WHERE: Air Canada Centre
TV/Radio: TSN2, TSN2 HD, FAN590 Radio


TORONTO RAPTORS
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Starters

(L to R): Calderon, DeRozan, Turkoglu, Bosh, Bargnani

Bench

(L to R): Belinelli, Weems, Jack, Johnson, Nestrovic, Mensah-Bonsu, Wright

Team Injuries/Inactive List

(L to R): Banks, Evans, O'Bryant

ATLANTA HAWKS
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Starters

(L to R): Bibby, Johnson, Williams, Smith, Horford

Bench

(L to R): Smith, Crawford, Evans, Pachulia, Collins, Morris, Teague

Team Injuries/Inactive List

(L to R): Hunter

Who's Hot

TORONTO RAPTORS


DeMar: 14.2 ppg in last 5 gp / Bosh: 25.9 ppg in last 4 gp

ATLANTA HAWKS


Johnson: 24 ppg in last 3 gp / Crawford: 17.8 ppgin last 6 gp

Key Match-ups


Joe Johnson vs. DeMar DeRozan


Jose Smith vs. Chris Bosh

Fox Sports World's Head to Head Match-ups
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PG vs. PG

SG vs. SG

SF vs. SF

PF vs. PF

C vs. C

GAME PREVIEWS


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Prediction

- 104
- 116

Redemption time or do we fall flat on our butts again?

BTW, not 100% sure on both Jose and Andrea's statuses for tomorrow's game, so I'll assume with the days rest that they'll be good to go tomorrow night.

[Gurk]

Major loss. I just hope we can lose by a manageable margin so we aren't embarresed again :sigh:

[A00715890]

Major loss. I just hope we can lose by a manageable margin so we aren't embarresed again :sigh:

couldnt agree more...

smith is gonna light up bosh....bibby is gonna gonna light up jose....

were gonna lose by atleast 20 pints...

[Doc]

couldnt agree more...

smith is gonna light up bosh....bibby is gonna gonna light up jose....

were gonna lose by atleast 20 pints...

If Jose and Bargnani are out, it definitely isn't going to be pretty. But it won't be anywhere as bad as last week when we gave up 146 points to the Hawks.









Or at least I hope it isn't as bad.

[Gurk]

I expect the score to be 150-120 with both teams not playing defence :dead:

[Arsenalist]

If the Raptors have any pride whatsoever, they will take this game at least down to the last couple minutes. The score from last week should be written on the whiteboard in the locker-room and Bargnani's 0 rebounds and Bosh's 2 points highlighted in red marker.

[Gurk]

OMG Raptors started out good but Triano really needs to make the Raps wake the fuck up

[Gurk]

Finally Jose makes an impact

[Gurk]

WOW the Raps let Evans drive to the rim so easily :dead:

[Gurk]

OMFG 13 point lead. The crowd is dead

[Gurk]

Thank god Jack is back. Jose should come back when he is 110%

[Gurk]

BOOOOOOO stop letting them get open dunks. I was expecting a better effort but this is just pure garbage

[Bendit]

Too painful to watch.

[Doc]

Looks like I missed another barn burner.

Even worse is that we might have lost Jose long term. And guess what that means? More Banks.